View full sizeThe presidential limousine speeds away from Dealey Plaza in Dallas after President John John F. Kennedy was fatally shot.AP File Photo

Recent television programs and newspaper articles about the life and death of President Kennedy all accept the Warren Commission conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. They ignore the possibility the commission was wrong.

The Warren Commission report, looked at closely, makes no sense. Supposedly Oswald fired three very accurate shots within a few seconds using a mail order Italian made Mannlicher Carcano rifle and using bullets available in gun stores. This was the standard rifle used by the Italian army in World War II. It was a terrible rifle with a bad bolt action and used bullets that were inaccurate. After he war we gave thousands of those rifles to Greeks fighting the communists in a civil war; the American army devised bullets that could be used accurately in that rifle. But those bullets were not available in gun stores.

The best marksman the Warren Commission could find had difficulty duplicating what Oswald is supposed to have done. Oswald's Marine Corps service record shows he was not a good shot.

The commission claimed a single bullet went through Kennedy's neck, then through Gov. John Connolly, exiting his chest, through his wrist and into his thigh. But Connolly says the heard he shot, started to turn to look at Kennedy, then was hit. It would be impossible for Oswald to fire the shot that hit Kennedy, then a second shot that hit Connolly. There was not enough time. But the Zapruder film clearly shows Kennedy reaching for his throat and Connolly sitting in front of him unharmed.